How to Enter Burning Questions: Round 5

Introduction: How to Enter Burning Questions: Round 5

People search for stuff at Instructables all the time. Sometimes they find what they're looking for, and sometimes they don't. But there are a few common how-tos that come up often enough that make us wonder, "why don't we have an Instructable on that?"

The answer is because no one has written one. But you can change all that.

Below is a list of "wanted Instructables". Write an Instructable about one of these topics and you will be eligible to win an Instructables Burning Questions Prize Pack consisting of a robot patch and a Burning Questions bumper sticker! Just be sure to provide a great Instructable and give it the same title as it appears in the list.

Wanted Instructables:

How to Write a Cover Letter

How to Potty Train a Child

How to house train a puppy

How to get sap or resin off of a car

How to build a baby gate

How to moonwalk

Tips for being a Gothic Lolita

How to land a plane

What to do in a car crash

Push start a car

Jump a Dead Car Battery

How to split logs

How to roast a pig

How to make a corsage

How to silence your critics

How to kick-start a motorcycle

How to get rid of foot fungus

Pick a hat that looks good on you

How to eat healthy

How to meet girls

How to meet guys

How to do laundry

Get rid of circles under your eyes

How to look younger

How to cope with aging

Politely end a conversation

How to leave school early

How to give a hickey

How to hide a hickey

How to look good

How to be attractive

Get a free upgrade to first class

Sneak into large events

How to retire young

Stock Investment Tips

How to improve eyesight

Properly stretch before exercise

How to be a rock star

Increase battery life for electronics

How to Identify Constellations

Get rid of woodpeckers

How to get rid of unwanted animals

Rules:

- The Instructables have to be of good quality. So include details, plenty of good pictures, and provide a good answer to the question. If they're lousy (you know when they are), no prize pack for you.- They have to be titled exactly as they appear above. Why? Because that's what people are looking for.- They have to have a publish date after July 17th.- They have to be on the list! Only Instructables answering questions on the list will be admitted to the group and prizes.

If multiple Instructables from multiple users are submitted as answers to the same question, we'll pick the Instructable that answers the question best and declare them the winner. So make sure that your answer is the best it can possibly be!

Unlike previous rounds of Burning Questions, prize notifications will be mailed after the close of the contest rather then along the way as before.

That's it, so go forth and hunt down the answers for some of these Burning Questions! Once again, the title needs to be the same as it is in the list!

Step 1: Official Rules

1. All federal, state, and local taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. No purchases are necessary; void where prohibited by law.

2. Participants agree to abide by all decisions of Instructables, contest co-sponsors, and judges, which shall be final and binding with respect to all issues relating to this contest.

3. Prize is not transferable and no cash alternative or prize substitution is available. Instructables and contest co-sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value if the prize listed is unavailable for any reason. All potential winners are subject to verification at the discretion of Instructables and contest co-sponsors.

4. Winner agrees that prizes are being provided "as is", and Instructables and contest co-sponsors make no warranty, representation or guarantee regarding the prize, including but not limited to its quality, condition, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

5. Instructables and contest co-sponsors are not responsible for problems including (but not limited to) damaged, incorrect, inaccurate, lost, delayed, or defective entries, or for injury or damage to any computer resulting from participation in this contest. Entries that have been tampered with or altered are void.

6. Instructables reserves the right to modify, cancel, postpone or end the contest at any time as necessary, at its sole discretion, or to disqualify any participant or winner, at its sole discretion, deemed to have cheated, destroyed, obstructed, or otherwise acted illegally or in bad faith in relation to this contest.

7. Instructables reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of the Terms of Service; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

8. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you represent and warrant that: you are over the age of 18, or entering with the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian (subject to verification), and that the entry does not contain or incorporate the intellectual property and/or confidential information of any third party.

9. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you hereby grant Instructables a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty free right to publish and distribute your entry for their promotional purposes.

10. Governing Law: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the official rules, or the rights of entrants, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with, the substance laws of the State of California and any applicable laws and regulations of the United States.

Hey, this is a great instructable and is very informative. Just one thing is missing... pictures! It really helps a lot when trying to follow directions so you should consider taking some photographs. Once you do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks! Thanks for the cool instructable and we hope to publish this soon!

This project looks awesome but there isn't enough documentation of you actually making it to be a full Instructable. There are two things which you could do.

1) If you happen to have images of you making your project you can create some more steps, add those additional photos into your Instructable and then republish your Instructable.

2) If you don't have any more pictures of you working on your project, that's ok too. That just means that your project is better suited to be submitted as a slideshow. Your images are already in your library, and you can use the same text that you have already written for your Instructable so it should only take a few minutes to create your slideshow and show the world what you made!

Thanks for your submission and let me know if you have any questions along the way.

Hey, this is a great instructable and is very informative. Just one thing is missing... pictures! It really helps a lot when trying to follow directions so you should consider taking some photographs. Once you do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work.
Thanks!
Thanks for the cool instructable and we hope to publish this soon!

Some of these are too general to answer in a single ible, I think. "How to cope with aging" -- the question is which of the many aspects of aging one is not coping with; each may have different answers, and the answers may be different at different ages even for a single individual. (Some are trying to cope with simply not being teenagers; others are trying to cope with losing friends; others are trying to cope with losing parts of themselves... and some of us are just trying to cope with a coping saw.) This question begs for a book... or a library... unless you trim it down to a subset.
Stock investment tips: The most important tip is to be extremely suspicious of any brief tip, including this one. If it was easy enough to be summed up in a tip, everyone would be doing well in the market... and we've got plenty of evidence right now that this isn't the case. Second most important tip is that unless you can put the money aside for many years, it probably doesn't belong in the market; the shorter the term, the higher the risk. Third: A Good Diversified Index Fund Beats Most Other Options, And Takes Near Zero Effort.

I've already got answers for half of these, I saw bumpy's thread and wrote up push starting a car, need to get the pics though, covers the techniques I've found best, want me to combine with jumpstarting or do separately....

My impression -- which could be wrong -- is that newer cars aren't push-startable (at least not from battery-dead conditions, which is the usual reason to consider doing this), because until you've got enough voltage to power the electronics and pumps there isn't enough of a functioning engine to start. Yes, there's the "failsafe mode" which it goes into if the ignition module dies completely, but even so...
If I'm wrong about that, I'd be glad to be corrected.
I'm not convinced photos would actually add a lot to this particular set of instructions, other than pure glitz factor. Video might, by showing folks about how fast the car should be going, why you need to be especially careful if you're doing this solo (as I usually was), the jolt you should expect as the clutch engages, and so on.

Newer cars can be push started, it's just you have no hope of push starting something with very low mileage because all of the parts are still very tight and it's most likely to stop dead, we had our new pickup doing thirty rolling down the hill, pop the clutch to start and it locks the wheels up...
I went in to detail and everything and may as well make a video while doing this...